PolymorphicWetware
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PolymorphicWetware is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 19, 2021 and September 12, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Comment of the week from the subreddit is by PolymorphicWetware”; “Comment of the week: PolymorphicWetware on how macroeconomic theories”; “PolymorphicWetware says that the Soviets focused on artillery”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Stripe, @halomancer1.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: April 19, 2021
- Last seen: September 12, 2024
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Related Pages
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- Stripe (2 shared issues)
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- @halomancer1 (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Altria (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Amish (1 shared issues)
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- Andrés Gómez Emilsson (1 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (1 shared issues)
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- Apple (1 shared issues)
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- Asians (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
1: Comment of the week from the subreddit is by PolymorphicWetware, on investing in “growth sectors”. Key quote:
Inline links: by PolymorphicWetware
2: Comment of the week: PolymorphicWetware on how macroeconomic theories of hyperbolic economic growth relate to attempts to balance computer games.
PolymorphicWetware says that the Soviets focused on artillery, so the post-Soviet armies of both Russia and Ukraine are both artillery-heavy. Artillery is better at defending your lines than breaking your enemies’, so both sides are great at pushing back enemy troops but bad at pushing forward themselves.
Inline links: PolymorphicWetware